Chapter 41 · for subscribers
Nine hundred years the water downstream of that mountain ran green and the ford's fishermen called it lucky, and eleven days of it running clean had been the luck going out. This was the third thing the mountain could do. Three mouths had been shut from above, and nine centuries of what the mountain drank had nowhere left to go, so it came down the aqueduct instead — and nothing that was ever meant for a human throat came down with it.
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